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Abstract In 1799, Thomas Hardy, grandfather of the novelist of the same name, wrote down texts and instrumental bass parts for several Christmas carols. This he continued until the number […]

Bob and Jacqueline Patten Reprinted from an article in West Gallery no.2, April 1991. Thomas Hawkes was born at Wiveliscombe, Somerset on 3 November 1786, and as a boy of ten went

by Nigel Tringham Reprinted from an article in West Gallery no.5, Summer 1993 The chapelry of Rushton, part of the extensive parish of Leek in the moorlands of Staffordshire, supported a flourishing

An introduction to the musicians of Rossendale, Lancashire, active from the 1740s to the 1860s. by Jean Seymour, Conductor of the the Larks of Dean Quire. CONTENTS © Jean Seymour

Fenella Bazin writes about music in the Isle of Man from the Fifteenth century onwards Before 1400 There is little to show what sort of music was played and sung

Harry Woodhouse, author of Face the Music, and a long article on WG music in Cornwall in Cornish Studies, Second Series, No. 1, writes here about the results of his 20

David Welch Revised from an article in Different Voices, Issue 3, May 2009. This article tells about the music of Presbyterian churches in Scotland between the closing of the era of

by David Welch In 1690 the Church of Scotland divided, an event that significantly affected sacred music in the next two centuries. The thirteen Scottish bishops had their authority rejected

Paul Gailiunas Joseph Mainzer was born in Trier in 1801, and was ordained in 1826, becoming the singing master in the seminary in Trier two years later. He attracted the